Suspender for trousers.



No. 766,342. PATENTED AUG. 2, 19-04.

J. T. GRADON. 1

SUSPENDER FUR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

JOHN THOMAS GRADON, OF OXFORD, ENGLAND.

SUSPENDER FOR TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,342, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed December 7, 1903. Serial No. 184,167. (No model.)

To It w/m/m it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHX THOMAS GRADOX, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 5 Keble road, Oxford, county of Oxford, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspenders for Pants, Trousers, and other Articles of \\"ezi1'ing'A1)paiel, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an easily-adjustable contrivance for suspending or supporting pants, especially at the back, tennis, cricket, foot-ball, boating, and other trousers, and other articles of Wearing-apparel.

Briefly described, the contrivance is a safetypin tab and is best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 show the contrivance for use as a pants-supporter. Figs. 3 andet show same as used for supporting tennis and like trousers in lieu of shoulder-braces. Figs. 5 and 6 show the contrivance for use when an ordinary trousers-button is lost. Fig. 7 shows the contrivance as used for supporting skirts. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate modifications thereof, and Fig. 10 a still further modification.

According to my invention the back of a safety-pin A is sewed into one end of a tab B, leaving the pointed part of the pin free for attachment to the top of a pair of pants, trousers, or a shirt, as the case may be. The other end of this tab B is provided with an opening, which may be either round a or slotted horizontally or vertically b-that is, a transverse or longitudinal buttonhole-according to use, and the edges of this hole or opening are either sewed or provided with a brass eyelet. Midway between the back of the safety-pin A and this opening a in the tab B a button C is or may be sewed, Figs. 5 and 6. The tab itself may be of linen, soft leather, or other material, and it may conveniently be from one inch to two inches long and from half an inch to one inch broad.

The contrivance is used as follows: In ori der to support the pants at the back, Fig. 2, l the safety-pin A, Fig. 1, is attached to the l top of the pants and the end of the braces passed through the opening a in the tab B and fastened to the button on the trousers, Fig. 2. In order to support tennis, cricket, and the like trousers, Fig. l, the safety-pin A is attached to the shirt and the tab B, Fig. 3, fastened to the top trousers-button in front by the buttonhole 7), Figs. 3 and at, or to the buttons at the sides or back.

.-\lthough I have thus far described my invention as applied to trousers and pants in the male sense of the words, yet it is easily understood that I may apply the same device to supporting ladies divided skirts, bloomers, combined cycling-skirts and knickers, and other garments by simply engaging the safetypin A in the ladies shirt-blouse and fastening the tab to the button on the band of the skirt at the back. (See Fig. 7.) In this arrangement the tab and hole are made much shorter, inasmuch as they must be covered by the waistband.

In Figs 8 and 9, which illustrate modifications of the skirt and like supporter, the tab or equivalent thereof is formed of metal either solid with the pin or adapted to be secured thereto. In Fig. 8 the tab B is formed solid with the pin A by making in the back of the pin one or more bends or loops adapted to engage with a hook or hooks fastened on the skirt-band; but in Fig. 9 the tab B is formed by coiling a wire round the back part of the pin A as shown, leaving one or more loops to engage with the aforesaid hooks on the skirt. In Fig. 10 the tab B is shown solid with the pin A and consists of a plate having an opening 11 to engage with a button or hook on the skirt.

In order to supportordinary trousers in an emergency, as in the case of accident to or loss of the button, Fig. 6, the safety-pin A is attached to the top of the trousers and the braces fastened to the auxiliary button O on the tab B, Figs. 5 and 6.

Having now described my invention, What I In testimony whereof I have afiixed my sigclann as new, and desire to secure by Letters nature in presence'of two Witnesses. Patent, is

In a device of the character described, a JOHN THOMAS GRADON' 5 pin, a supporting device carried thereby, said Witnesses:

supporting device having a hole near its end RICHARD HENRY ANGLIN WHITETORKE,

and a button sewed to the supporting device. I GEORGE WALTER YOUNG. 

